Comment on Mastodon's federation consistency is laughably bad.
jaredwhite@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’m not sure what it is you’re comparing. Instances don’t “sync” with each other. It’s all based on the follow graph of the individual users of each instance. So yes, sometimes a post from one instance won’t show up until days later on another because it just so happens that post may have been interacted with by some other user and only now it shows up on the instance.
FWIW, I operate multiple Mastodon accounts across multiple instances, and I’ve had no problem with seeing posts show up right away across instances.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 days ago
To make this simple:
Lemmy: One user follows a community from another server, content federates from all users commenting and posting. It takes one follow to start that flow.
Mastadon: One user follows another, content federates for that one user. It takes a lot of follows to get significant content movement.
In addotion, it is much more likely that out of 10 servers, the same communities are followed vs the same people.